Session Information
Description: This session brings together Americanists and medievalists, literary scholars and historians, to discuss how nostalgia for the Civil War and the Crusades has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy. This comparative conversation allows participants to strategize with the panelists on best practices in the classroom and beyond.
Speakers
David Perry, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sierra Lomuto, U of Pennsylvania
Kevin Gannon, Grand View U
Danielle Christmas, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presider
Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U
Respondent
Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U